Blue Pearl Software Introduces RTL Closure Tool

Blue Pearl Software, Inc., an electronic design automation (EDA) company focused on automating the process of RTL closure, announced the release of its first product, Indigo RTL Analysis(TM), for rapid functional closure. The company will release its timing closure product later this year.

Indigo accelerates designs through the synthesis flow by identifying functional issues in RTL designs prior to synthesis. It reduces the number of design iterations required by resolving issues such as synchronization of data crossing clock domains and logic races. Indigo's powerful new high-level functional analysis technology runs at the full chip level, without synthesizing to gates, allowing rapid analysis of multi-million gate designs.

"We were able to download Indigo and use it on designs in less than an hour," said Steve Presant, vice president of hardware engineering for C2 Microsystems. "Indigo has allowed us to create a low-risk and predictable development cycle that helps generate accurate RTL code, reducing time-consuming iterations."

Detection of Clock Synchronization Errors and Races

Indigo analyzes multiple clock domain designs to ensure that data crossing domain boundaries is synchronized. Indigo recognizes double register, memory and custom synchronization schemes and highlights data that re-converges from independent synchronizers. Indigo quickly identifies race conditions, such as write-write, read-write, and combinational loop races, and automatically pin-points the lines of source code that cause them.

Enforcement of Design Methodologies

Indigo also includes traditional built-in rule checks that enforce existing design methodologies, including design reuse (RMM/SRS), design for testability (DFT), simulation, synthesis, and lint.

Availability and Pricing

Indigo is available now on Solaris, Linux, and Windows, and supports Verilog. VHDL and SystemVerilog support will be available later in 2005. Pricing starts at $5,000 (U.S.) for a one-year, time based, single user license.

Contacts

Blue Pearl Software
Ellis Smith, 408-961-0121 X 304
ellis@bluepearlsoftware.com
or
Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
Jen Bernier, 408-997-7762 (PR Director for Blue Pearl)
jen@akipr.com